Outages and Maintenance
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Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS Clusters Maintenance
The Bell, Halstead, Hammer and CMS clusters will be unavailable Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 8:00am EST for scheduled maintenance. The clusters will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, the clusters will have their operating...
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Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday
The Bell cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's int...
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Bell will be unavailable Tuesday night through Thursday
The Bell Cluster will be unavailable Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 8:00pm EDT. During this time, our Engineering team will be working with vendor representatives to complete benchmarking steps and finalize the cluster's internal configuration. During...
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Unscheduled RCAC GitHub outage
The github.rcac server will be briefly unavailable Friday, October 16, 2020 from 7:00pm – 11:59pm for an emergency maintenance. During this time, the server will undergo maintenance tasks that can not be completed with the server in production. Opera...
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As of about 8:15 pm yesterday (Monday 12 October) the Slurm batch scheduler on Rice entered a degraded state due to a problem with its internal database. Job Scheduling on Rice has been paused while we work on this issue. We will provide an update b...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 1:15 pm, Sunday 11 Oct. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being address...
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The Halstead cluster began experiencing issues with its scratch filesystem around 9:00pm. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working to identify a fix. Job scheduling has been paused while this issue is being addressed. We will prov...
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Fortress Archive Monthly Maintenance
The Fortress Archive will be unavailable Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT for scheduled monthly maintenance (first Wednesday of every month). During this time, Fortress will receive normal updates and have some work done on its ta...
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Halstead's scratch began experiencing issues this morning (Sunday 27 Sep). Job scheduling has been paused while engineers and the system vendor investigate the issue. We will have an update by tomorrow morning (Monday 28 Sep) at 10:00 am.
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Halstead's scratch began experiencing issues at approximately 2:00 AM. Some users have reported that they are unable to read or index files within their personal scratch directories when logged in from certain front-ends. Job scheduling has been pa...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with its disk cache subsystem being full on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 around 12:30am EDT. The problems manifest themselves as intermittent Error -1, Error -28, and No space left on device error m...
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The Weber cluster will be taken down for regular maintenance and upgrades beginning on Monday, August 31st, 2020 at 8:00am EDT. During this time, Weber will have operating system updates applied. Users will be unable to log in or use Weber for inter...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with its disk cache subsystem on Thursday, August 27th, 2020 around 9:00pm EDT. The problems manifest themselves as intermittent Error -1, Error -28, and No space left on device error messages in HS...
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The Gilbreth cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Gilbreth will have the operating system patched and a maintena...
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The Fortress tape archive began experiencing issues with Error -1, Error -28, and No space left on device error messages in HSI and Globus around 9:00pm EDT on Tuesday, August 25th, 2020. Engineers are currently diagnosing the issue and are working...
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Central Authentication Service (CAS) Outage
This morning, BoilerKey authentication for all community clusters and user facing services (such as the RCAC website, Rstudio Server) is unavailable due to a Central Authentication Service (CAS) outage. All the clusters are under normal operations an...
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The Research Computing GitHub service (github.rcac.purdue.edu) will be unavailable Thursday, August 20, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT for scheduled maintenance. The service will return to full production by Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 5:00pm EDT....
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The Scholar cluster will be taken down for a short maintenance on Thursday, August 20th, 2020 at 10:00am EDT. During this maintenance, we will apply patches to the RStudio Server on Scholar. All jobs which cannot complete before the start of the main...
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The Brown cluster will be unavailable Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 8:00am EDT for scheduled maintenance. The cluster will return to full production by %enddatetime%. During this time, Brown will have the operating system patched and a maintenance up...
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As of 12:30pm EDT all the clusters are back in production. If your job crashed during the outage, please resubmit it. We are currently experiencing an outage across the community clusters (Brown, Gilbreth, Halstead, Hammer, Rice, Scholar, Snyder, WC...